It rained today. This, ordinarily, wouldn't be a big deal. But this is an area of Houston where some of the local infrastructure is oddly fragile. The phone lines haven't actually gone dead in the past five years or so, but there are lingering issues. Like this:
That's my uTorrent speed graph for the past ten minutes. See those points every minute or two where the green line drops to zero and then rebounds? That's where the DSL modem is trying to find the carrier again. This has been repeating every two to three minutes. Since about eight this morning.